Tuesday, May 9, 2017
Visayan Daily Star
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN
Source: http://www.visayandailystar.com/2017/May/09/businessnews4.htm

The municipality of EB Magalona got P6.4 million worth of projects from the Department of Agriculture and Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, Mayor Marvin Malacon announced yesterday.

* Photo: Visayan Daily Star/Gilbert Bayoran. Click here to see more photos.

Malacon said the DA, assisted by the municipal government officials, distributed P3.5 million worth of palay and corn drier to farmers in Brgy. San Isidro, EB Magalona, that he expects to boost their production and help uplift their lives.

Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Sunstar Bacolod
By Erwin P. Nicavera
Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/bacolod/business/2017/04/26/eb-magalona-farmers-get-boost-through-agri-aqua-fair-538581

E.B. MAGALONA – Farmers, fisherfolk, and producers in this northern Negros Occidental town are getting boost through the Agro-Aqua Festival Village which opened at the public plaza on Tuesday.

The activity, part of the week-long celebration of the 28th Ugyonan Festival, brings together products from the seven coastal and four upland barangays of the town.

April 26, 2017
By BY GILBERT BAYORAN
Visayan Daily Star
Source: http://www.visayandailystar.com/2017/April/26/topstory2.htm

The Coca-Cola beverage company may have signed a contract to be among the sponsors of the ongoing Ugyonan Festival of EB Magalona in Negros Occidental, but Mayor Marvin Malacon said he is supporting the move of other local government units to ban its products in the town.

Malacon, who opened the weeklong Ugyonan Festival celebrations yesterday, said “I am with the banning of Coke products”, adding that the use of high-fructose corn syrup affects the sugar farmers in Negros Occidental.

Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Negros Daily Bulletin
By Eugene Y. Adiong
Source: http://www.ndb-online.com/april2617/malacon-bares-town-s-gains

E. B. Magalona town Mayor Marvin Malacon yesterday bared the gains made by the municipal government 10 months after he assumed office.

Malacon said that he has improved the social welfare and health of the residents by releasing P30,000 a day for medicines, hospitalization, and burials.

The town receives an Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) of around P6 million for this year.

Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Negros Daily Bulletin
By Eugene Y. Adiong
Source: http://www.ndb-online.com/april2617/ebm-backs-coke-ban

E. B. Magalona Mayor Marvin Malacon yesterday said he is supporting the industry-wide call to ban Coca-Cola products even as the town already signed a sponsorship deal with the company.

“After our Ugyonan Festival, I will ask the Sanggunian Bayan to pass a resolution supporting the boycott of Coke products in the province,” Malacon said.

Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Visayan Daily Star

Twelve “Outstanding Saraviahanons” will be honored tomorrow by the municipal government of EB Magalona, in recognition of their contribution to the development of the town.
They are Abang-Lingkod Rep. Stephen Paduano, Bacolod City Division Schools Superintendent Cynthia Demavivas, lawyer Rafael Librando, Visayan DAILY STAR senior reporter Gilbert Bayoran, Commodore Rafael Bolivar (ret), Brig. Gen. Renato Yongque (ret), Emmanuel Diploma, Teofilo Escala, Engr. Nelson Franco, Perla Sodusta, Lora Biñas, and Aquilino Araza.

Posted on March 22, 2017
The Visayan Daily Star
http://www.visayandailystar.com/2017/March/22/businessnews2.htm

The Department of Trade and Industry presented a check for P490,000 to persons with disabilities in EB Magalona town yesterday.

Rachel Nufable, DTI chief industry development specialist, said the amount was on top of the P500,000 given to the group in 2014 for the trainings on bamboo crafts like basketry, panggal weaving and house wares, and product development trainings.

They were also trained in entrepreneurship, product costing and a local study mission was also conducted. “We initially provided them P500,000 from the Bottom up Budget of 2014 for the same trainings”, Nufable said.

Wednesday, February 15, 2017
By Gilbert Bayoran
http://www.visayandailystar.com/2017/February/15/businessnews2.htm

The port in Brgy. Manta-angan, EB Magalona, Negros Occidental, is expected to be operational by the end of this year, Mayor Marvin Malacon said yesterday.

The port developer, FF Cruz Co. Inc., is presently constructing the port that will connect with the Bay-ang port in Ajuy town, Iloilo.

Tue, 02/14/2017 - 09:02

EB Magalona Mayor Marvin Malacon wants couples who plan to be part of the town’s mass wedding ceremonies to participate in mangrove planting.

Check out EB Mag 16th Mass Wedding Ceremony Photo Gallery

Malacon will officiate 69 couples set to tie the knot today, Valentine’s Day in a mangrove planting activity held last Friday at Barangay Tuburan in EB Magalona, Negros Occidental.

Romeo Subaldo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 10 2017 03:22 PM

Sixty-nine couples who are set to tie the knot on Valentine's Day planted mangroves on Friday at Barangay Tuburan in EB Magalona, Negros Occidental.

This is one of the requirements of the local government before the mass wedding on February 14.

Couples plant mangrove trees as required by the local government in EB Magalona, Negros Occidental prior to a mass wedding on February 14. Check out EB Mag 16th Mass Wedding Ceremony Photo Gallery